Carlos Hernandez-Sanez, 18, and Edras Vasquez, 20, insulted the two women using slurs in Spanish about their sexual orientation when the women were going inside the Wheaton convenience store at 2:38 a.m., according to the Montgomery County police.

One of the men threw a Cup-O-Noodles on the two victims when they noticed one of them filming the string of epithets on her cellphone, police said. Hernandez-Sanez and Vasquez then grabbed for the 36-year-old woman’s phone and started punching and kicking her and her 44-year-old friend, according to investigators.

They pushed the woman who had been filming them into the glass storefront so hard that they cracked it, police said. That’s when Hernandez-Sanez and Vasquez took her phone and ran off from the Amherst Ave. 7-Eleven in the suburb north of Washington, D.C., according to cops.

The women dialed 911, and Montgomery County police officers captured their attacker's moments later on Georgia Ave., police said in a statement. The victims received treatment for minor injuries at a nearby police station after the assault.

Carlos Hernandez-Sanez.

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“Montgomery County Police Department recognizes that no person should be victimized, especially targeted by hate, and certainly we thoroughly investigate any crime that is believed to be based on an individual’s race, religion or sexual orientation,” police spokeswoman Lucille Baur told WTOP-FM.

The hate crime they’re charged with, harassment of a person based on race, religion, sexual orientation or national origin, carries up to three years behind bars and a $5,000 fine with a conviction.

Vasquez has a rap of two counts of hate crimes, two counts of second-degree assault, robbery and malicious destruction of property valued over $1,000. Hernandez-Sanez faces charges of a hate crime, robbery, second-degree assault and malicious destruction of property valued over $1,000.